On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 20:16 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > So how do Unix/Linux progams export their interfaces? In MS VisualStudio, I > can click on a function or method and right-click to get the interface.
The "free desktop" way of doing this is D-Bus. The interface description for your D-Bus object is written in XML: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#introspection-format and is available at runtime using the special org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable interface on the object. You can inspect running objects visually using d-feet, and even call methods on them if you like: http://live.gnome.org/DFeet/ I believe that gtk-doc can convert the D-Bus Introspection data into e.g. HTML, as in: http://www.packagekit.org/gtk-doc/PackageKit.html For libraries, GObject Introspection is also relevant to this topic: https://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection It's a method for automatically creating language bindings for APIs, including documentation. Tim. */
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